backintime-gnome: does not hardlink files ending in ~
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Bug Description
From Debian bug #550743:
From: Géraud Meyer <email address hidden>
Package: backintime-gnome
Version: 0.9.26-3
Severity: normal
Backintime-gnome suggests not to backup backup-files (*~) by default.
In my config I backup everything.
All files whose names end with a tilde (~) that have been backed up
are not hardlinked to the previous version, even though most of them
have not changed. However the corresponding non-backup files (whose
names do not contain the final ~) are for the most part hardlinked
"together".
Backup files that do not change should be hardlinked whatever their names.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (499, 'unstable'),
(10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
| Changed in backintime (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in backintime (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in backintime: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in backintime: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| importance: | Wishlist → Undecided |
| Bart de Koning (bratdaking) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in backintime: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in backintime (Debian): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
| Changed in backintime: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I cannot reproduce this bug, this might be because it is fixed already in the current development branch, or might be because I use ubuntu, but if a make a snapshot of a folder containing a ~ file (and remove the *~ pattern from the excluded patterns), change something, make a snapshot again, and compare the snapshot contents using ls -il the inode numbers are the same:
1st snapshot
4246253 -r--r--r-- 4 bart bart 10 2009-10-06 21:56 äöüß.txt
4589357 -r--r--r-- 1 bart bart 0 2009-11-09 13:02 nieuw bestand~
4589354 -r--r--r-- 3 bart bart 10 2009-11-09 13:02 spatie spatie
2nd snapshot (changed spatie spatie)
4246253 -r--r--r-- 5 bart bart 10 2009-10-06 21:56 äöüß.txt
4589357 -r--r--r-- 2 bart bart 0 2009-11-09 13:02 nieuw bestand~
4720785 -r--r--r-- 1 bart bart 36 2009-11-09 13:56 spatie spatie
4720786 -r--r--r-- 1 bart bart 10 2009-11-09 13:56 spatie spatie~
3rd snapshot (changed completely other file)
4246253 -r--r--r-- 6 bart bart 10 2009-10-06 21:56 äöüß.txt
4589357 -r--r--r-- 3 bart bart 0 2009-11-09 13:02 nieuw bestand~
4720785 -r--r--r-- 2 bart bart 36 2009-11-09 13:56 spatie spatie
4720786 -r--r--r-- 2 bart bart 10 2009-11-09 13:56 spatie spatie~